As Pastor John Piper finishes up, his travels through the Middle East during the month

of November were going back and listening to a few As Pastor John recordings from years

past.

And a few years back, he was asked this question, what are some ways we can know Christianity

is true?

Here's what Pastor John had to say.

You can come at the truth of Christianity through several angles of apologetics or of reasoning.

Let me mention a few and tell you the one that is most extantially real for me.

One would be historical.

I think arguments can be mounted that are solid and compelling, first for the existence

of Jesus and then for the death of Jesus and for the resurrection of Jesus to give an

account for why the apostles were the way they were after his death, so that the arguments

that Pondenberg has developed or evangelicals have developed for the resurrection of the

dead, who moved the stone type, type arguments, that's the name of a book.

Our strong and have helped many people get over the barrier because if Jesus has been

raised from the dead, never to die again and ascend into heaven, then we should take

very seriously and credit what he said about himself.

So that's one line of evidence.

That's a second line of evidence would be what would be called presuppositional that

without God as an assumption, without the Bible as an assumption, all of our reasoning processes

or all of our perceiving processes are not possible.

In other words, every time we start thinking and every time we start perceiving something

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